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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2><SPAN class=375405118-15092005>I
should have included this question in my last post on dbf driver size limits...
How do you get a really big text file with about 300k coordinates into dbf
format in the first place?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=375405118-15092005>Running db.tables doesn't show text files, and renaming
the file extension doesn't work, either. Too big to edit in
OpenOffice.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2><SPAN class=375405118-15092005>I
thought maybe I could cram the text file through v.in.db, but alas I get 'cannot
select cursor' errors; not that I really expected it to work, just tried it for
fun.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2><SPAN class=375405118-15092005>Is
there maybe a 3rd party utility that anyone knows of that will do the
conversion?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=375405118-15092005>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2><SPAN class=375405118-15092005>~
Eric.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#000080>Eric
Patton</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2><EM>Technologist,
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